The following statement was issued by the The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data for Hong Kong: (13 October 2015) The Office of the Privacy Commissioner for Personal Data (“PCPD”) expresses concern over the possible personal data leakage involving the contactless credit cards issued by banks and commences a compliance check on this issue….
Month: October 2015
Peppermill Resort Spa & Casino discloses hack
Add Peppermill Resort Spa & Casino to the list of hospitality entities that were hacked last year but didn’t learn of it until this year. According to their notification letter of October 5, the hack involved their front desk system and resulted in the compromise of customers’ payment card information, including security codes. The hack…
Are Half of the Hacked Patreon Accounts Fake?
Brady Dale reports; t looks like hackers quietly siphoned data from Patreon, the site for financing creative people’s work via the crowd, for a very long time. That said, more than half the user emails found in the hack bear the markings that suggest they were likely fake accounts. Read more on Observer. Note that…
New EMV-chipped credit cards still vulnerable to fraudsters – Revised PSA from FBI
On October 8, the FBI issued a PSA, which I duly posted here. They caught serious flak for it from bankers for their recommendations concerning the use of PIN, and subsequently revoked the PSA. They have since issued a revised PSA, which I am reproducing below so you can compare the original to the revision. The main…
Ukrainian Hacker and Botnet Operator Who Allegedly Tried to Frame Brian Krebs Extradited to US (UPDATED)
This probably just made Brian’s day. Aaron Katersky reports: A Ukrainian man who allegedly tried to frame cyber-security expert Brian Krebs has been extradited to the United States and is due in Newark federal court today, prosecutors said. Sergey Vovnenko is accused of taking part in an international conspiracy to hack into the computer networks…
Someone Hacked Uniformed Services University and Leaked Their Credentials Online
Waqas reports: A hacker going with the online handle of Kuroi SH hacked and defaced several domains of the United States based Uniformed Services University and leaked 2014 login credentials online. Uniformed Services University (USU) is the country’s only Federal Health Sciences University whose primary mission is to prepare graduates for service to the U.S. at home…